January 11, 2001
WAITING FOR FRIDAY, WOMEN? G+J TESTS LIFESTYLE TITLE ALONGSIDE ROSIE; COULD LAUNCH 2002
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amA new women's magazine with the working title Friday is being tested at Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, the American magazine arm of German media giant Bertelsmann, The Post has...
YOU'RE GONNA PAY MORE FOR LESS ; AMERICAN-TWA DEAL WILL TRIM CHOICES
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amConsumers are likely to be the big losers in American Airlines' blockbuster deal to acquire TWA - when it comes to both price and service. But if it's any consolation,...
YAHOO! PLUMMETS ON FORECAST TRIM
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amYahoo!'s fourth-quarter earnings came in within expectations last night, but a bleak outlook for 2001 had after-hours traders turning nasty. Yahoo! shares traded lower for most of the day, then...
COURT TV BUYS SMOKING GUN
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amOne of the classic independent success stories on the Web found a corporate home yesterday. The Smoking Gun (www.thesmokinggun.com), which posts actual court documents, was bought yesterday by Court TV,...
SPINNING BRITNEY: JIVE RECORDS WILL CO-FINANCE TEEN STAR'S FIRST MOVIE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amBritney Spears is going to be a movie star. And her record label is hoping to cash in on her first flick. The teen popster will make her acting debut...
EX-DAILY NEWS HONCHO WALKS FROM PET SITE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe dog's life apparently doesn't suit former top editors of the New York Daily News. For the second day in a row, petplace.com was rocked by the departure of a...
RESIDENTIAL BOOM ON FOR 42ND STREET AREA
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe 42nd Street block between Eighth and Ninth Avenues is being targeted for another housing development. A New York City family is planning a $121 million rental building on the...
GOOD CHANCE FOR A THIRD COURSE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amIT took 10 years to make a sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs" - but if producer Dino De Laurentiis has his way, audiences will be able to sink...
THE STARR REPORT
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amHiyo! People cansCarson tribute People magazine has spiked an issue that was to have been devoted to "Tonight Show" legend Johnny Carson, who turned 75 last October. Diners at Zocalo...
CLUMSY CAN BE O-KLAY ; UPN'S 'GARY AND MIKE' ARE FUN THE OLD FASHIONED WAY
January 11, 2001 | 5:00am"Gary and Mike" Premiering tonight at 9:30 on UPN/Ch. 9, following "WWF Smackdown" IT'S something in the way they move. The awkward gait, the arching of clay eyebrows, the forming...
ZUCKER PUNCH; KIDS ARE TOO SMART TO TAKE DUMB SHOWS, SAYS THE NEW PREZ OF NBC ENTERTAINMENT
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA - NBC's new entertainment honcho, Jeff Zucker, has a message for his network: younger audiences aren't stupid. And don't treat them that way. "I do think there's something to...
THAT'S SNOWBIZ, JIM
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - NBC scored an Olympic-size coup yesterday, drawing sportscasting legend Jim McKay away from his lifetime contract at ABC to work the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake...
MGM ROARS OVER 'SILENCE' SEQUEL ; HOPES PROMOTIONAL PUSH MAKES 'HANNIBAL' DE-LECTER-BLE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amBREAK out the Chianti and fava beans! "Hannibal," the long-awaited sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs," is coming next month - and MGM is sparing no expense to promote...
JAY GETS 'TONIGHT SHOW' TILL '05
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Jay Leno is going to be on TV until at least 2005. His contract runs for another year, but the host of the "The Tonight Show" on...
ONE NAZI-HUNTER'S REEL-LIFE STORY
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amMICHEL Thomas speaks 11 languages - but his life once depended on pretending he had no linguistic abilities at all. It happened in France, during World War II, when Thomas...
GRATEFUL FINEST WELCOME N.C. COUNTERPARTS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amTwo North Carolina cops are getting a VIP tour of the Big Apple - a thank-you gift for helping out one of New York's Finest after he was paralyzed in...
RUDY DETAILS 500 COPS TO WATCH COPS AT PROTEST
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amAs many as 500 police supervisors and top brass will be in uniform to keep the peace at today's massive City Hall rally by off-duty cops demanding pay raises. A...
GRISLY NEW DETAILS OF BOY'S 'CANNIBAL' DEATH
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amA crazed cannibal murdered a 10-year-old Montana boy, chopped his body into tiny pieces and used them to make chili and spaghetti sauce, prosecutors say. Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, who spent 12...
QUEEN'S AILING SIS HOSPITALIZED
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amBritain's Princess Margaret was sent to the hospital yesterday - a week after the royal family insisted she was on the mend from a possible stroke. The younger sister of...
L.I. STRIP-COP ACCUSERS MAY CASH IN
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amFour women who have accused a Long Island cop of making them strip after traffic stops could get big payoffs from Suffolk County if they can get around a few...
WAR-CRIMES PLEA DEAL FOR SERB 'IRON LADY
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe self-proclaimed "Iron Lady" of the Bosnian Serbs surrendered to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal yesterday after making a deal to testify against former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Biljana Plavsic,...
GAY DAD WINS SON IN CUSTODY COURT FIGHT
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amA gay father won custody of his 3-year-old son after a bitter and emotional court battle in Manhattan with the toddler's surrogate mother. The child's mother was denied custody in...
STATE SLAPS 3 NURSING HOMES FOR POOR CARE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - Three city nursing homes were cited by the state for providing substandard care. The Bishop Hucles Nursing Home in Brooklyn was cited for failing to document and investigate...
NO FIX YET ON BACKED-UP PUBLIC-TOILET PLAN
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPublic toilets are going down the drain again. Mayor Giuliani and Council Speaker Peter Vallone are blaming each other for holding up a $5 million plan to install public toilets...
RIVALS RIPPING GREEN 'GIMMICK' ON SOFT $$
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPublic Advocate Mark Green yesterday called for a soft-money ban in the mayoral race - and was quickly bashed for the proposal by two of his Democratic rivals. In a...
HOPE FILLING HALLWAYS AT BRONX PS 6
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amBronx parents and teachers yesterday were gratified by a landmark court ruling that mandates equal funding for city and upstate schools - and hopeful that extra money will bring much-needed...
SILVER VOWS SUBWAY HEARINGS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amRankled that the Transit Authority won't hold public hearings on its new W line - slated to begin in July - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has threatened to call his...
HIZZONER: $50M STRIP-SEARCH DEAL NOT SET IN STONE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani insisted yesterday there is no deal requiring the city to shell out up to $50 million to thousands of strip-search victims - despite an agreement signed by a...
WHY CHAVEZ FELL ; IDEOLOGY RUN AMOK
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amLINDA Chavez wasn't wrong when she said she was targeted by the politics of "search and destroy." That's not what cost her a seat in George W. Bush's Cabinet, however....
TRAFFIC COPS RESCUE MAN FROM APT. BLAZE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amTwo quick-thinking NYPD traffic agents yesterday kicked in a door and rescued a man trapped in his burning and smoke-filled Harlem apartment. Traffic agents Walter Clark, Catherine Valentin and Darlene...
HARD LABOR: DUBYA FACES TOUGH CHOICE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amNOW that Linda Chavez is toast instead of labor secretary, President-elect George W. Bush gets a second chance to decide how to deal with labor unions - hang tough or...
WAR-CRIMES PLEA DEAL FOR SERB 'IRON LADY'
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe self-proclaimed "Iron Lady" of the Bosnian Serbs surrendered to the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal yesterday after making a deal to testify against former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic. Biljana Plavsic,...
MID-BEAST PEACE PACT FOR SOCKS & BUDDY?
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe nation's largest pet-adoption agency yesterday urged the Clintons not to give Socks the hiss-off, and offered to broker peace so the kitty and First Pooch Buddy can "live together...
HOLTZMAN ROBBED AGAIN BY GUNMAN
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amFormer Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman was robbed at gunpoint of $100 in front of her home, police said yesterday. It was the second time in six years that the...
MERRY MONSTER BIN LADEN ALL SMILES AT SON'S NUPTIALS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amTerror master Osama bin Laden played the proud papa and beamed with happiness as he celebrated his son's wedding in TV footage shown yesterday on an Arabic satellite channel. The...
COPS WILL GO WATCH COPS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amAs many as 500 police supervisors and top brass will be in uniform to keep the peace at today's massive City Hall rally by off-duty cops demanding pay raises. A...
MCCALL FLUNKS GOV'S SCHOOL-AID POLICIES
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - State Comptroller Carl McCall will blast Gov. Pataki today as responsible for the "corrupt" school-aid system that a judge ruled yesterday discriminates against New York City. McCall, gearing...
BOOK PUBLISHERS WRITING OFF RUDY? - NOT MUCH INTEREST IN A 'TELL-LITTLE'
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPublishers are losing interest in Mayor Giuliani's memoir because he's dragging his feet on putting together a proposal and showing little interest in penning a personal tell-all. St. Martin's Press,...
MCCALL: CITY NOT CURBING BAD CABBIES
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amState Comptroller Carl McCall yesterday accused the city of allowing hundreds of taxi drivers to remain on the road despite their racking up enough violations to have their licenses yanked....
HOST: RICH WOULDN'T 'SURVIVE' NEW CAST
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPASADENA, Calif. - Scheming "Survivor" winner Richard Hatch "would have gotten eaten alive" by the latest group of contestants on "Survivor II," show host Jeff Probst says. The eagerly anticipated...
LOOK FOR SOME ODD BEDFELLOWS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amALBANY - The court-ordered re-jiggering of the state school-funding formula will result in bizarre political alliances, not the normal Democrat-Republican clash. This time, the fight will be based on geographic...
'MCBEAL' STAR OPTS TO ADOPT
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amCall her Mommy McBeal. Small-screen single gal Calista Flockhart has secretly adopted a baby boy she watched come into the world on New Year's Eve. The 35-year-old "Ally McBeal" star...
FEDS SAY FAD IS BAD - BUT STUDY GIVES DIETERS 'FAT' CHANCE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amForget all those crazy crash diets - you can lose weight and stay healthy without having to cut out all the fat or starve yourself. A federal review of diet...
YOU CAN'T BUY GOOD SCHOOLS - WHAT NO JUDGE CAN FIX
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amSTATE Supreme Court Justice Leland DeGrasse yesterday decreed that "New York state has over the course of many years consistently violated . . . the state constitution by failing to...
CITY BIGS ALL SMILES OVER JUDGE'S DECISION
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amCity officials and educators cheered a court ruling affirming what they've long believed: The state has cheated Big Apple schools out of billions of dollars. "This is a great decision....
U.S. CATHOLICS, TOO, MAY FACE ST. LUCIA HELL
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amON THE morning of Dec. 31, as he was helping distribute communion at Mass, Victor Reyes was attacked by anti-Catholic fanatics - who set his head on fire. The 67-year-old...
TEAM BUSH GETS SNIPPY AS BILL KEEPS SNIPING
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-elect George W. Bush's team pointedly suggested yesterday it's time for President Clinton to show a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T after Clinton took two more snide swipes at his successor....
JUDGE RULES FOR THE CITY $CHOOLS - ORDERS STATE TO BALANCE FUNDING
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amIn a decision hailed as a stunning victory for city schoolchildren, a judge ruled yesterday that the state is cheating city public-school students out of "a sound basic education" -...
ASHCROFT IS JOHNNY ON THE SPOT - FOES SEE VOTE AS TEST OF DEMS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amWASHINGTON - President-elect George W. Bush's team began revving up yesterday for its next battle - over Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft - as his critics sought to make it a...
TEAM PUFFY CAN GET A WITNESS - OR 30!
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amFor every witness prosecutors put on the stand to say Sean "Puffy" Combs had a gun, the defense has 10 to say he didn't, sources familiar with strategy for the...
SURROGATE MOM LOSES CUSTODY BID VS. GAY DAD
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amA gay father has won custody of his 3-year-old son after a bitter and emotional court battle in Manhattan against the toddler's surrogate mother. The child's mother was denied custody...
INTERIOR PICK'S IN THE WOODS ON CIVIL WAR: FOES
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amPresident-elect Bush's nominee for interior secretary once praised Confederate soldiers who died defending "the sovereignty of their state" against federal efforts to abolish slavery. Gale Norton, a former Colorado attorney...
450G HEIST ON WEST SIDE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amA brazen bandit terrorized a maid and lifted about $450,000 in jewelry from a swanky Upper West Side apartment last night, police said. The man, who got in through an...
'WILD, EXCITED' VIKING FOLK SETTING FOOT ON FOREIGN SOIL
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amFrank Borzellieri is a brave and lonely Viking preparing for hearty battle in the land of powerful Giants. OK, he's a rabid football fan who hates the hometown team and...
CANCER MADE HER CHIC - DESIGNERS FLIPPED FOR SKELETAL MODEL
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amMELISSA Silver's spidery-long legs and honey locks made her a fashion photographer's favorite, and her emaciated physique clinched her jobs on the catwalk. But her skeletal frame was not caused...
KILLER DEVILS ON RECORD TEAR
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amAwful turned to awesome. After starting the year as the league's worst, the Devils' penalty killers went on a streak matched only three times in the NHL since 1990. While...
BELL AND BC SOUND A LOT LIKE STORM
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe way Troy Bell tells it, all former Minnesota coach Clem Haskins had to do was come to his house. Just one visit and the Minneapolis native would have signed...
KY. DERBY FUTURE BETS SET
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amDates have been set for the trio of four-day wagering pools for the 2001 Kentucky Derby Future Wager and that schedule includes a significant change in the timing of the...
NETS' SEASON QUICKLY GOING BY THE BOARDS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amNets coach Byron Scott has not been one to mince words. "Our rebounding is awful. Period," Scott said. Actually, Scott was being very kind. The Nets' rebounding sank beneath "awful"...
BOOMER LIKES BLACK AND BLUE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amFormer Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason says Big Blue will steal a victory from the Vikings Sunday to continue their roll to Super Bowl XXXV. "Raiders and Giants in the Super...
RICHTER KNEE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amIn a procedure that should help his movement on the ice, not to mention maneuvering in and out of those tight taxi backseats, Mike Richter sat out practice yesterday to...
DAUNTE WON'T TRY TO BEAT GIANTS BY HIMSELF
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amVIKING NOTES EDEN PRAIRIE - Minnesota quarterback Daunte Culpepper was named NFL Offensive Player of the Week yesterday, after torching New Orleans for 302 yards in his first playoff start...
GLEN'S FOOT (AND EGO) SORE: MEDIA DIGS IRK KNICK
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amGlen Rice has picked up on the innuendo, the murmurs that the Knicks might be better off shorthanded than at full capacity. Rice has heard about the Knicks' 4-0 record...
JEFF TROOP DEFENSE HAS DATE WITH HISTORY
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amKNICK NOTES Jeff Van Gundy is proud of the way these Knicks have played defense recently, proud they'll break a defensive record that's stood for 46 years if they hold...
A YEAR LATER, SAME OLD JETS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amWoody Johnson wakes up today, one year after being declared the winner of the bidding war for the Jets, with decidedly mixed marks for the job he has done. While...
PARK WEST'S DYNAMO DUO SOARS AGAIN
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amHS HOOPSPark West 73 Bergtraum 60 After Knowledge Miller and fellow sophomore sensation Bradley Ramel combined for 56 points in Park West's 73-60 PSAL win over Bergtraum yesterday, Miller looked...
JETS START INTERVIEWS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amDay One of life without Bill Parcells began with a flurry of interview activity yesterday at Weeb Ewbank Hall. Jets' yearling owner Woody Johnson, who's continuing to decline interview requests...
DON'T BE SURPRISED IF TUNA COACHES AGAIN
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amHere's something to watch for sometime after the 2001 NFL season is complete: Bill Parcells back on the sidelines again as a head coach. Parcells, though he was adamant in...
WITH THOMAS OUT, DOUBTS CLOUD VIKING 'D'
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - As if Minnesota's beleaguered defense didn't have enough to worry about. They've been overshadowed by the Vikings' high-scoring offense, and in Sunday's NFC Championship Game, they'll...
JESSIE'S CALL TO ARMS ; LB TRYING TO KEEP FANS IN A FRENZY
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amOne year ago, All-Pro linebacker Jessie Armstead was up in arms over the Giants' offensive woes, his inability to communicate with Jim Fassel and the muddled state of the team....
HEY, WE'RE HERE, TOO ; BIG BLUE'S 'O' REFUSES TO CONCEDE TO VIKINGS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThere is a collective mindset circulating around the Giants and an offense which, despite popular perception, will be allowed on the field Sunday to take part in the NFC Championship...
SUN OF A GUN! FORECAST MILD
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amThe latest forecast for Sunday's NFC Championship Game between the Giants and Vikings at Giants Stadium calls for temperatures to be in the low 40s, with sun giving way to...
LOMAS, PARKER WON'T FALL FOR RANDLE'S GARBAGE
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amTo understand the heart of a team, go to the heart of the offensive line. Left tackle Lomas Brown and left guard Glenn Parker are the veteran linemen who keep...
JINTS GETTING PUMPED FOR LT PEP TALK
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amLT's coming! Jim Fassel, confirming an exclusive report in yesterday's Post, sent a surge of electricity through his team yesterday when he announced that Giants Hall-of-Fame legend Lawrence Taylor will...
TOOMER TAKES A BREAK ; SITS OUT PRACTICE, BUT SHOULD FACE VIKES
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amGIANT NOTES Five days before the NFC Championship Game, the Giants' best receiver was standing on the side in the practice bubble, not out there on the field preparing for...
RETURN AT YOUR OWN RISK ; SEHORN MAY GET CALL TO RUN BACK PUNTS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amJust imagine the television face time Jason Sehorn will get on Sunday if he's back there, all by his lonesome, awaiting a punt to drop out of the sky so...
RED STORM HAND EAGLES FIRST LOSS
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amSt. John's 73 Boston Coll. 71 This was a game St. John's had to have and one Boston College didn't want to give. The Red Storm were fresh off an...
HOLIK & MOGILNY TWO GOOD
January 11, 2001 | 5:00amDevils 5 Coyotes 1 Ice-cold, red-hot, both varieties stoked the Devils' fire. There was Bobby Holik, still seething over his benching last week, snapping a 17-game goal drought with a...